This is an extended sharing springing from the comments of my friend Phil Pinpin on my previous piece “Been there, done that. Now what?” appearing in Inquirer.net (1). Thank you so much, Phil, for your deep and informative comments from the heart. I do believe hope springs eternal in human breasts and, thankfully, it’s still in mine… somehow. Could it be possible that perhaps our usual way of looking at our national problems is a … [Read more...]
March 3 Senate Inquiry: The Plot Sickens
By March 3, 2011 1 Comment
It has been two weeks since the last session of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee was convened to question resource persons involved in the case as litigants, prosecutors and others who may be able to contribute to provide information which would help the Senate to strengthen the existing graft and corruption laws and also possibly enact new ones in an effort to stamp out corruption in government. I counted the days leading to today’s session … [Read more...]
Been There, Done That, Now What?
By February 23, 2011 1 Comment
Democracy is ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people’ according to President Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address (1863). At EDSA I (1986), we Filipinos and our military toppled a long-standing dictatorship. Critical masses of people filled the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA); our people’s pent-up desire for freedom and their longsuffering patience - broken by the last straw of rigged elections (1986) on … [Read more...]
Can President Aquino lift the Philippines’ transparency image?
By December 28, 2010 4 Comments
In a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the least corrupt or very clean, the Philippines has been given a score of 2.4 in the 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index survey by Transparency International. That was exactly the same CPI score the country had last year. With a 2.4 score, the Philippines is in the company of Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Honduras, Nigera, Sierra Leone, Togo, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe. (Photo: President Benigno S. Aquino III // … [Read more...]
PLDT joins World’s Top 10 Worst ISPs
By November 28, 2010 8 Comments
The latest report on the world's worst spam problem networks includes pldt.com.ph, the domain name of the Philippines' telecommunications company PLDT. The report, released by the Spamhaus Project, has listed 38 unresolved spam issues against pldt.com.ph which positioned it as the world's number 10 worst spam support network. The Spamhaus Project is a Geneva- and London-based spam-tracking organisation with 28 investigations and forensics … [Read more...]
Plagiarism and misrepresentations in Supreme Court decisions
By October 24, 2010 4 Comments
By this time you must have heard or read about one of the hottest topics in town: The charges of plagiarism against Associate Justice Mariano C. Del Castillo of the Philippine Supreme Court were dismissed by a majority decision of the Supreme Court because, according to the Supreme Court, Del Castillo had no "malicious intent" when he lifted passages from an article in drafting his decision without attribution. In dismissing the charges of … [Read more...]
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